St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-18

ing of hats and nandkerchefs. This lasted
several minutes. 1t was his first public
speech since his illness. Father McGlynn
looked well, except for a slight paleness.
When he could make himself heard. he
said that it was holy and wholesome
thought to venerate long after their de-
parture the memory of the sainted dead.
1t impelled them to pause amid the hum
drum OF the work day life to contemplate
their best ideals. They were most of them
the children in direct descent of those to
whom st. Patrick went with the message
of blessing, and who gathered around him
to drink in eagerly the holy message that he
was sent to give. After a review of the
work of the apostle III Ireland, he told the
story of Ireland's sutferings, of her chill
dren driven from home sacrificing every
thing for liberty. He said that ST. Patrick
had indoctrinated his people with the ueces-
sity of holiness of life, and that it had been
given to the people of Ireland to choose be-
tween that and all that is held dear by the
people of the world, language, liberty and
life itself. Upon hundred battle fields. in
thousands of wretched famines, In the
holds of emigrant ships, upon trackless
prairies.
THEY HAD CHOSEN TO DIE,
rather than sacrifice the one thing needful.
1t was given to the present generation to
behold the glimmering of the dawn of that
day when all the nations of the earth
should rise up and call her blessed. The
precious doctrine that God had given the
fair earth to all the sons of men. that he
had made of one breath all mankind TO
stand equal in the presence of their maker,
was the possession of the people of Ireland,
and fbnV wnuld rooa 1apandopoa ,ror, M
man or set of men who should endeavor to
interpOse between them and the blessings
that God had given equally to all. His
children. 1t might seem at first little out
OF place, perhaps, for himself. priest of
the Catholic church [Applause] upon that
platform. which was not so much religious
as political, and upon which were patriotic
men who were not of that fold, to content
himself with preaching to them st. Pat
rlck-day sermon. But he was priest and
he never would be anything else. Ire.
mendous applause. and therefore they
must pardon him if he should inject into
his remarks something of the nature of a
sermon. All great human causes We're
necessarily religious. and if religion would
not go with any cause then the fight was not
worth fighting. If that were not so then
life was but on the evil basis Of those who
said, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow
we die" 1t was but vulgar scramble for
those things Of this world. of which there
are not enough to go around. The religion
that they believed to be best, and certain
PATRIOTIC AND ECONOMIC TRUTHS,
namely, that God gave to no nation the
right to enslave another, and the right to
no man to enslave his brother, were proofs
Of their fidelity to honest truth. All who
had Irish blood in their veins felt it course
more rapidly through their bodies to-day as
they perceived the approach of Irelands
liberty. Their hearts were with those who
were struggling i'll the councils of the Brit
ish parliament for justice to Ireland, and
with those who were trying to solve that
economic problem, without the settlement
OF which the achievement of Irish national
independence would be but half the battle.
The great question for the Irish people to-
day was not so much should they be free
from foreign dictatiOn, as should they be
enSlaved-the great masses Of the people
by privileged few; it mattered not whether
native or British. The great bane of Ire
land was not so much foreign rule as land
lordism. and it mattered not a jot whether
they were English or Irish, whether they
spoke the Celtic or the Saxon tongue.
Cheers. confusion and three groans for
English government. So willie they
shouted ''Home rule for Ireland, let them
not forget at the same time to say, 1.-The
land for the irish people," In conclusion
the speaker said that people in Ireland in
St Patrick's- day held the land, in common.
Davitt received the traditions from his fore
fathers.